To have a lot on your plate is to be dealing with more work and worry than fits. You have a lot on your plate, too much on the plate, plenty on her plate.
It is sympathetic rather than critical, and it is often used to excuse somebody who has forgotten something. The picture is of a plate loaded past what anybody could eat.
1phrasehave a lot on your plateTo be dealing with more work and worry than fits.
“You have a lot on your plate already, so let somebody else take the minutes.”
have a lot on your plate is a phrase.
Also accepted in games: a lot on your plate
Practised in Idioms